iRiver China, in collaboration with iMP3.net, successfully held a fans gathering in Beijing on 15th October 2005. iRiver China had sponsored some attractive prizes to be won during the gathering, such as iRiver T30.
Although this is a fans gathering, the highlighted section was the launching of new models in China. Products launched in the party are T10, T20, T30, N11 and of course the long awaited U10!
Cowon has recently updated its Korean website, iAudio.com with detailed specification of upcoming iAudio U3. It is introduced as mini Movie MP3 by the company. It is estimated to be available on 17th October 2005. iAudio U3 is likely to be the first flash-based MP3 player that supports playback of FLAC format.
The detailed specification goes here:
Among the current iRiver T Series models, T20 has less attractive look especially it comes with metallic colors. However, iRiver Japan has release a special edition of T20 in white body and warmer colors. As usual, there are 3 colors for different capacity; green for 256MB, blue for 512MB and red for 1GB. Other specification remains unchanged including the prices.
It looks more more eye-catching than the previous one. I think most of the people will prefer white body. Well, I wonder when it will be available globally.
{ Press Release (babelfished) }
I don’t whether iRiver has made an armband for its U10 just like Apple did to its iPod Nano. However, someone really made it. Joe is showing off his U10 with an armband. It looks cool when the thumbthing is binding on your arm. But it seems tiring if watching video clips like this! 
{via Joe’s blog }
SigmaTel announced on last week that it had acquired the Direct Digital Amplification (DDX) technology, design team and intellectual property from Apogee Technology. DDX technology is a high efficiency, Class-D digital amplifier technology that provides a solution to convert digital audio directly into power without being processed by a DAC (digital to analog conversion) chip.
SigmaTel plans to integrate the techonology into current and future System-on-Chip (SOC) solutions. With this, we may foresee SigmaTel to produce solutions in smaller form factors, longer battery life, and lower bill of material (BOM) costs to consumer electronics manufacturers.
SigmaTel continues to look at opportunities to diversify its business and integrate greater functionality into its product family allowing our customers to offer products they couldn’t deliver before at a lower cost,” said Ron Edgerton, SigmaTel’s president and CEO. “The acquisition of the DDX technology allows SigmaTel to offer its customers a more powerful and robust high definition audio solution that can be designed into future consumer audio products.
{ Press Release }
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